Cricket and video games are a combination that has so far failed to convincingly gel, so it's to the credit of Codemasters' Brian Lara International Cricket 2007 that it gets closer than most. Released to coincide ...

Top Spin 2, only recently released onto PC, is a fine, deep, involving tennis game. In fact, the whole Top Spin franchise, which has sprung to life in the gap while its main rival Virtua Tennis ...

If your cash-in alarm bells are ringing, then they rightly should be. UEFA Champions League 2006-07 is the latest game from the EA Sports football game production line that, since the end of 2005, has seen ...

Can you sink the pink? Down the brown? Sack the black? Or think of any better snooker-related puns to begin a review with? Hopefully ones that don't make you sound like Anne Robinson doing a Weakest ...

Darts on the computer is a weird concept. What's really the idea here - darts for lazy people? Because you could hardly call the beer-gutted monsters that wobble up to the oche every year "athletes" in ...

EA must have been looking at the cricket as a bit of a goldmine. With the resurgence of interest in the sport in the UK, along with the Ashes series, it's thus unsurprising that they held ...

We're all friends here, so let's be honest. EA Sports regularly gets hammered for sending out, year after year, only slightly enhanced versions of its sports games: these still sell, but rarely trouble the trophy cabinet. ...

Following the usual, annual FIFA vs Pro Evo debate has been a fascinating sport in itself this year, not least for the fact that many seem to now be rooting for FIFA as the underdog. After ...

Football Manager 2007, from the early preview build we've played, is a terrific game. It's built with real care to detail, certainly has one or two problems, and it might all go wrong between the time ...

Rather than churn out the usual "it's not changed much / Pro Evo is better / cynical EA Sports"-esque review of the new, annual FIFA game, this reviewer thought he'd set himself a challenge. Could he ...

Golf. It's a - sporting cliché alert - good walk spoiled. Or, in the case of computer golf, a good sit down spoiled. However, Real World Golf 2007 comes with its own peripheral club which allows ...

Dudley United Football Club have a fresh future ahead of them. Starting off a 'small and minor club', the creation of the team involved a few simple factors. First, picking which nation to play in. Then ...

It's already started. Read the early advance word on this latest attempt to bring Sensible Soccer kicking and screaming up to date, and phrases such as "it hurts us to say it" and "we don't enjoy ...

Gamers are rightly approaching the annual update of the sporting game with an increasing amount of cynicism. Granted, it's not stopping many of them reaching for their plastic and sending the latest versions heading skywards in ...

Can we assume that you know the bulk of the back-story by now? Suffice to say that the Football Manager franchise is the work of those who built up and made great the Championship Manager series, ...

Tim Henman is pictured on the front of Perfect Ace 2, along with the tag-line "Tennis doesn't get any better than this!" We don't know whether he's talking about the game or his on-court prowess, but ...

Given the raging success that the resurgent International Cricket Captain has been enjoying over the past twelve months or so, it's not surprising to see Focus Multimedia poke their head above the parapet with a cricket ...

This time around, even EA Sports seems to know that the game might be up. Slapping a price tag of a far more modest £19.99 on it, 2006 FIFA World Cup arrives just six months after ...

It can't be much of a coincidence that within days of Top Spin 2 going on sale, Sega had let slip that Virtua Tennis 3 was within a year of appearing on next generation consoles. After ...

If you're a little tired of your football menu consisting of a mixture of Pro Evolution Soccer, FIFA, Football Manager et al, then help is at hand. Yet, as is increasingly the case in the PC ...